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The presenter of Channel 4 programme Grand Designs has described much of the housing that has been built here in the last decade as “extremely poor”.
Conservationist Kevin McCloud was speaking on a trip here yesterday as a guest of Coillte, during which he described the downturn in the construction industry in Ireland as a “huge crushing defeat.”
He said it had taken the recession to show that too many developers were building a “pile of crap” and that treating such houses as a “piece of stock demeans what a home is.”
Read the full article in today’s Irish Times here.
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